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Topic: Alien equipment at MNGRR (Read 8397 times)

I was looking through some old photos and found some of MNGRR from around 1998. I was surprised to see a European tank loco, appears German, and what looks like a zoo train passenger car. I thought MNGRR only bought Maine or Maine-like stuff from Edaville.

Well, the German "teakettle" is a sibling to the engines at Boothbay. I belive she came from an operation in New Hampshire that went under and wound up on the Loon Mountain RR.The "zoo-car," IIRC, is in fact a trailer from one of the 2' railbusses (possibly built or moodified by Edaville's shops.)

There are some other engines of that type (Henschel) around. I think that Boothbay had one of their Henschels in their shop and also had one from Loon Mountain ski area. I'm not sure which engine was where and when, but these engines aren't as rare as one would first think!

Tim Hairston

Well, the German "teakettle" is a sibling to the engines at Boothbay. I belive she came from an operation in New Hampshire that went under and wound up on the Loon Mountain RR.The "zoo-car," IIRC, is in fact a trailer from one of the 2' railbusses (possibly built or moodified by Edaville's shops.)

I was just browsing through here and noticed this old thread about that Henschel at the MNGRR. That engine is definately not the locomotive at Loon today. The loon engine has been there for over 30 years. I'm still wondering where that little Henschel at the MNGRR went??

That would be the same Locomotive in the first picture. It came to MNGRR for a while, if I remember correctly. And last I knew, Loon Mountain only had one locomotive, so it very well could be the same one pictured at Boothbay, undergoing repairs, in the third photo.